10-letter words containing f, a
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federalese — awkward, evasive, or pretentious prose said to characterize the publications and correspondence of U.S. federal bureaus.
- federalism — the federal principle of government.
- federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalize — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- federating — Present participle of federate.
- federation — the act of federating or uniting in a league.
- federative — pertaining to or of the nature of a federation.
- fee-paying — charging for service
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- feel small — to be humiliated or inferior
- felicitate — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- fellatio's — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellatrice — a female fellator
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- femaleness — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- feneration — the lending of money on interest.
- fenestella — a small aperture in the front of an altar, containing relics
- fenestrate — Fenestrated.
- fergiegate — the scandal resulting from a News of the World sting operation in which Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was videotaped offering access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for £500,000
- fernando i — Ferdinand I (def 1).
- ferroalloy — an alloy of iron with some element other than carbon, used to introduce the element in the manufacture of steel.
- ferrograms — plural of Ferrogram
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- feudalized — Simple past tense and past participle of feudalize.
- fever heat — the heat of fever; body heat exceeding 98.6°F (37°C).
- fianchetto — the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fiberglass — a material consisting of extremely fine filaments of glass that are combined in yarn and woven into fabrics, used in masses as a thermal and acoustical insulator, or embedded in various resins to make boat hulls, fishing rods, and the like.
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- fibreglass — Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.
- fibrillary — Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers.
- fibrillate — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibroblast — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- fiddlehead — Nautical. a billethead having a form similar to the volute carved at the upper end of a violin.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- field army — army (def 2).
- field goal — Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.
- field hand — a person who works in the fields of a farm or plantation.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- fieldcraft — (military) The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
- fieldfares — Plural form of fieldfare.
- fight back — retaliate